"...but the Arabs still couldn't, and didn't, come to grips with the
fact that Israel was not going to accommodate them by disappearing from
the map."

Golda Meir
autobiography.

Aftermath & Analysis

"...in 1967 Israel was fighting, not a war of choice,
but of necessity, fighting for its very survival against the armies of neighboring
states at a time when the "occupation" so often cited as the key
reason for Arab hostility was not yet a historical reality.

Israel still faces existential threats from a possibly
nuclear Iran and its radical Islamic allies in Hamas and Hizbullah, as well
as a continuing ideological campaign in certain circles of Western public
opinion that views any Jewish state in this region as illegitimate.

...on a more positive note, in uniting Jerusalem under
Israeli sovereignty, also opened up the holy places of the world's three
major faiths to a degree of freedom of access and worship they had never
known in all the centuries of Muslim rule."

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